{"id":25439,"date":"2019-12-22T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25439"},"modified":"2018-12-28T21:44:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T07:44:04","slug":"winter-equinox-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25439","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The winter solstice will occur at 18:19HST today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CE99-53-12262-DC-e1546066709901-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise over Georgia Strait\" class=\"wp-image-5714\"\/><figcaption>Sunrise over Georgia Strait<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sun has reached the most southerly declination it will achieve this year. After today the Sun begins to move north in our skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today will be the shortest day of the year for those of us located in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is considered the start of winter for most cultures in the northern hemisphere, or the start of summer for those in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"font-size: 80%; border: 1px solid DimGrey;\" width=\"600\">\n  <tbody>\n    <tr><th style=\"font-size: 120%;\" colspan=\"5\">2019 Apsides and Seasons<\/th><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Event          <\/td><td colspan=\"2\">Universal Time<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">Hawaii Standard Time<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Perihelion     <\/td><td>Jan 03<\/td><td>05:20UT<\/td><td>Jan 02<\/td><td>19:20HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Spring Equinox <\/td><td>Mar 20<\/td><td>21:58UT<\/td><td>Mar 20<\/td><td>11:58HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Summer Solstice<\/td><td>Jun 21<\/td><td>15:54UT<\/td><td>Jun 21<\/td><td>05:54HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Aphelion       <\/td><td>Jul 04<\/td><td>22:11UT<\/td><td>Jul 04<\/td><td>12:11HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Fall Equinox   <\/td><td>Sep 23<\/td><td>07:50UT<\/td><td>Sep 22<\/td><td>21:50HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Winter Solstice<\/td><td>Dec 22<\/td><td>04:19UT<\/td><td>Dec 21<\/td><td>18:19HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td colspan=\"5\">Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/aa.usno.navy.mil\/data\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">US Naval Observatory Data Services<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winter solstice will occur at 18:19HST today. The Sun has reached the most southerly declination it will achieve this year. After today the Sun begins to move north in our skies. Today will be the shortest day of the year for those of us located in the northern hemisphere. Today is considered the start &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winter Solstice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[94,95],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CE99-53-12262-DC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25458,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439\/revisions\/25458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}